Licensing
The Veeam Plug-in management functionality is licensed by the number of instances. Instances are units (or tokens) that you can use to protect your computers with Veeam Plug-ins. If the license is not valid or out of resources, Veeam Plug-in backup jobs fail.
The number of instances that you can use depends on the type of license installed in Veeam Backup & Replication:
- For Veeam Universal Licensing (VUL)
You can use Veeam Plug-ins with all license packages (Veeam Backup Essentials, Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Availability Suite).
Keep in mind that if you use the Rental license type, functionality of Veeam Plug-ins is supported only for the Enterprise Plus edition of Veeam Backup & Replication.
- For Perpetual Socket license
Functionality of Veeam Plug-ins is supported only for the Enterprise Plus edition of Veeam Backup & Replication.
For the full list of license packages, see this Veeam webpage.
Obtaining and Managing Licenses
To learn how to install a license and monitor licensed objects, see the Licensing section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.